Visit Times Square without leaving your chair
If you have QuickTime check out this 360-degree view of Times Square. If you don’t have QuickTime, what are you waiting for? This is pretty cool.
If you’re in the mood to read economic statistics today…
The National Governors’ Association has released its Fiscal Survey of States, a 68-page report just chock-full of state budget information.
Creative Commons to open next week
At last, Creative Commons debuts on Monday, December 16. The website is a project of Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, and is designed to show writers, artists, and other publishers of copyrighted material different and creative ways of protecting their intellectual property.
If I wander too far down this IP road, I’ll get lost…
Finally, a reason to get rid of those #$!% out-of-office replies
How many of you set up “out of office” messages for those who send you e-mail while you’re, well, out of the office? I can’t deny their usefulness for providing people with immediate notification of your unavailability, but for some reason they annoy the heck out of me. I’m glad to know I’m not the…
And the walls come tumbling down
I was trying to find some time to read all the articles on this week’s decision on jurisdiction for Internet libel, but it’s just not there. It’s a little scary, but not really surprising, that eventually a court somewhere would drag a defendant halfway across the world to defend its Internet postings.
For those…
A-Ha!
The New York Times reports that many libraries set their Internet filters at the highest settings, which often blocks useful health research sites.
I just don’t understand this — although filtering software isn’t perfect, most of these programs do have the ability to be customized. Why is this happening?
Today’s Google Trifecta
Google Labs is at it again. First up is the Google Viewer — this is Google’s version of the Preview function found in other search engines. When your search results appear, they immediately begin cycling as part of a slide show; you can set the speed yourself. Next is Google Webquotes. Just plug in your…
Google as a business builder
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A new tactic for defeating spam
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